Category: Integrations

May 11, 2018

Interoperability in IoT; a key factor for its development The transformative potential of the Internet of Things is obvious, and many companies are aware of this. With the development of the new 5G networks, the Internet of Things will grow along the way, perhaps …

April 20, 2018

Continuous Integration Software: Learn all about Jenkins In a previous post we explained all about Continuous Release of Software and today we will see the previous step: the Continuous Integration of software but from the point of view of automated tools . We chose …

March 22, 2018

Data Guard monitoring: find out all about it in order to monitor it What is Oracle Data Guard? Before getting started with the tutorial for Data Guard Monitoring from Pandora FMS, first, we need to understand what Oracle Data Guard is. In order to …

July 25, 2017

Pandora FMS integrations: JIRA After the integration of Pandora FMS with the Integria IMS ticketing tool, now it’s the turn of another one of the tools of the moment. It’s JIRA, from the manufacturer Atlassian. This tool has obtained a great growth in the …

March 27, 2017

Finding a tool which allows you to monitor business processes in real time isn’t easy, and because of this we’ll talk about those Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) tools that allow managers to monitor the status of their business processes and the global business, all …

February 22, 2017

No, we’re not talking about Donald Trump’s latest midnight briefing to an astonished world, or a flame war between Hollywood celebrities. Instead we’re going to take a look at another kind of Twitter alert; the kind you can configure with Pandora FMS using one …

December 1, 2016

Contemporary business needs IT and communication technologies if anything is to happen. For modern businesses, IT and communication technologies are essential; without them, almost nothing could happen. Reliable business machines, smooth-running applications, a technological infrastructure that keeps downtime to the absolute minimum, are imperative. …

November 21, 2016

Notifications via Telegram: Pandora FMS’ integration What could be faster than an instant message, from one of the most popular messaging services of the moment? The service is Telegram, and the present article is about its incorporation into the alert system of Pandora FMS. …

June 2, 2016

Around March we already had a warning in the form of a newsbreak that someone was infecting devices managed with TeamViewer with ransomware. Now June has just started and we get news of another, more disturbing, incident that is also affecting TeamViewer. The TeamViewer team, …

March 28, 2016

Pandora FMS is now available as an Amazon AMI (installed on CentOS Linux) in a way that’s completely compatible and optimized to work on your Amazon Web Services virtual enviroments. Since Amazon Web Services is a worldwide reference when it comes to cloud services, …

March 16, 2016

So as you may have noticed, we just released a chat bot plugin for Pandora FMS in order to adapt Pandora to the growing tendency around ChatOps and its use. In spite of this, you may still wondering exactly what ChatOps is all about. …

March 15, 2016

ChatOps: what does it really mean? Probably you’ve been listening to this word a lot lately but you still may not know exactly what all this is about. Its creation is attributed to this video from the GitHub platform, which refers to a concept …

March 9, 2016

Since the release of Docker Swarm at Artica TS we’ve been planning a way for Pandora FMS to combine with this new Docker feature, in order to monitor complex Docker Swarm environments under high availability schemes.

April 29, 2015

This is a VBScript Local Plugin that creates modules setting several parameters. Pandora_odbc reads a configuration file, which defines Module Name, System DSN Name, User, Password, Database, Module Type and a SQL Query in CSV Format. You must set the SQL Query between double …

February 9, 2015

Until now, as it was defined, it was not possible to use a remote plugin in a policy, because there was no way to pass the IP in the module definition. For this reason, it was necessary to use the macro address in any of …

February 6, 2015

Developing a powerful monitoring software is not a silly thing. He have to communicate with other departments all the time, so that, the Pandora FMS team need a complete tool as Slack to improve the communication in their internal processes. Before using Slack, we …

July 17, 2014

A new plug in has just been created. Now Pandora FMS can monitor Raven DB’s performance settings. Raven DB is a NoSQL database. What is NoSQL? A NoSQL or Not Only SQL database provides a mechanism for storage and retrieval of data that is modeled in means other …

May 5, 2014

One of the new features of 5.1 version is a useful extension to IPv4/IPv6 Address Management (from now IPAM). With IPAM feature, you will be able to: Discover networks IPs detection in a subnet. Checking response of each IP (Up or Down depending on a …

April 3, 2014

Downtime hurts customer loyalty and impacts revenue so it is critical to resolve issues quickly. Since your systems need to be up 24/7/365, you need to know when there are issues whenever, wherever. Today we launched our integration with PagerDuty to help you decrease …

March 31, 2014

Manuel Angel Fernandez published a new interesting plugin for Pandora FMS in his blog (spanish). It’s an agent plugin to search the system attached drives and retrieve the S.M.A.R.T status. This parameter is a simple value that show if the drive is Failing or Not. …

March 12, 2014

Monitor the storage of lots of data In recent times with the arrival of social networking, appeared the need of storage and manage huge quantity of data. The classic database management systems have been, in some sense, deprecated due the low performance an scalability on …

July 8, 2013

We have a NEW server plugin available with which we can monitor the emails that come to our IMAP mail account. Depending on the configuration that you apply, you can do the following: – Monitor if we get a new mail with filtering that …

December 17, 2012

Inventory is an awesome enterprise feature in Pandora, but is not common to hear customers that they doesn’t use it because doesn’t know well. Okay, this is a brief overview, not about how use it, not… it’s about how to use your own scripts …

September 17, 2012

It was my first Google Summer of Code as mentor, and I must say, GSOC is an incredible opportunity devised by Google . All the students who join this program are willing to learn and help you with your projects as much as they …

August 24, 2012

We have created a new plugin that gets from Bloomberg website the 10 year Spread of several European countries like Spain, Greece, Italy, Portugal…Then we have create a special visual map to it: You can view the real time public map HERE

November 30, 2011

We’ve developed a plugin and it’s available in our resource library: http://pandorafms.org/index.php?sec=community&sec2=repository&lng=es&action=view_PUI&id_PUI=249 It’s a script that counts the number of mentions of a string into the last X seconds on Twitter.